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Roland Bouman (and his one-man team!) managed to win the 2nd prize on the Open Data / Accountability Hackaton which took place on June 9th in the Dutch Parliament Building. So we are all very proud of him and want to congratulate him with this achievement (first prize went to a team with 6 people)….

Do we still need to talk about Data Vault 2.0 Hash keys? Read in 15 min A few days ago, I ran into the article “Hash Keys In The Data Vault”, published recently (2017-04-28) on the the Scalefree Company blog. Scalefree is a company, founded by Dan Linstedt and Michael Olschminke. Linstedt is the inventor…

BW Workspace integration with Lumira, Design Studio and Analysis for Office Read in In my last blog, I introduced you to BW Workspace and how to utilize it to your advantage. In this blog I will share my experiences working with BW Workspace and discuss its power and disadvantages. No data manipulation – so adjusting…

GOOD WORDS, GOOD THOUGHTS, GOOD DEEDS Read in Imagine a sunny Saturday afternoon in March. Walking, or should I say running, hand in hand with my 10-year-old son off a sand dune in Scheveningen. We are on our way to save the world. Sounds like quite a responsible job, but in fact it doesn’t feel…

Moving Forward Read in As we move forward in the fast-paced world of SAP, it is only fair to expect some dramatic changes in the reporting area. So with that in mind, when we opened a newly packed box of SAP BW/4HANA, it did have some surprises in store for us. Well well well, let’s…

Cool features in Analysis for Office 2.4 version Read in SAP Business Objects Analysis for Office (AO) has been released in its 2.4 version by the end of 2016. In this version two Plug-ins are combined: The consequence is that a client will need SAP authorization to use EPM. For a detailed disquisition discussion of the…

Simplify your modeling with ADSO Model Templates Read in Why waste time figuring out which modeling property boxes to tick, when you can model a whole ADSO in one click? This is what model templates could do for you. Even though they’re not new in BW/4HANA (SAP introduced them in BW-on-HANA 7.4), it’s still worth having…

Getting to know BW/4HANA Read in A wise comic character once said, “With great power comes great responsibility”. I recently received the responsibility to research SAP’s next-gen data warehousing product, BW/4HANA, through my company Just-BI. I would like to share with you how I learned more about BW/4HANA and became a member of the Fantastic…

Make your Dashboards more intuitive with SAP Design Studio Read in SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio enables you to create analysis applications and dashboards. The product offers a design tool that allows you to create applications with a WYSIWYG editor without the need for native HTML and iPad UI programming skills. Visualization components like charts and…